>>Fabio,
>>
>>Doug is not talking about table structure, he's talking about variables.
>>
>
>Doug, in its message writes word DBF, I think that DBF was a table,
> but now I discover that it is one variable.
>
>This Thread don't speak of variables.

Fabio,

Is this any different than TYPE() returning N for integer, numeric, double, and float? If not, do you consider that a bug also?

Personally, I think this is more of a poor design choice than a bug.

Regards,